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Jan. 25, 2009

Taking a Pass on Football

An injury sidelined former player Barry L. Plotkin, but it put him on a path to the bench.

Read more about Barry L. Plotkin...
By Cortney Fielding
Daily Journal Staff Writer

SAN BERNARDINO - In 1976, a young Pomona defense attorney was representing an 18-year-old hitchhiker convicted of murdering an Israeli national who'd picked him up.

The boy's crime made Barry Plotkin's stomach turn. But after the guilty verdict was read, he had the gnawing feeling justice hadn't been served.

A jury decided the brutal nature of the teen's crime warranted a "special circu... (continued)

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